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Mr. Scorsese's 3-D tribute to old movies has 14-year-old actor Asa Butterfield hanging on for dear life from the minute hand of a precipitously tall railroad-station clock tower—in the snow.
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The story of the man who built an empire of railroad-station restaurants beginning in the late 19th century is expertly told by Stephen Fried in "Appetite for America," according to Jonathan Eig.
Year in Reviews: Books Our Critics Loved Mark Lasswell 2010
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Anyone who still believes in the romance of revolution need only read his descriptions of railroad-station platforms "" covered by [the] vomit and defecation '' of fighters and refugees to think again.
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In a new book, "Once Upon a Town," Bob Greene writes about a railroad-station canteen in the tiny town of North Platte, Neb., where the locals fed 6 million GIs passing through during World War II.
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By the end of that decade most southern states had made it illegal for blacks to ride with whites in railroad cars, and some had also segregated city streetcars and railroad-station waiting rooms.
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By the end of that decade most southern states had made it illegal for blacks to ride with whites in railroad cars, and some had also segregated city streetcars and railroad-station waiting rooms.
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In their apartment on Berlin's trendy Auguststrasse, an old railroad-station clock hangs from the ceiling.
Dumpster Divers 2007
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Its railroad-station is a magnificent piece of architecture.
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Beneath a shelter-tent by the Rapidan, in a striped railroad-station in Bavaria, at the counter of Trübner's bookstore in London, and at Cordaville, in
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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How cordially one sees the eyes of all travellers turn to the man who enters the railroad-station with
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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